Upon closing the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station, the OPPD board froze your general electric rates through 2021. My priority is to extend that rate freeze through at least 2026. OPPD’s Strategic Directive No. 2 established a goal that your rates must be 20 percent below the average rate in the West North Central region of the country. Extending the rate freeze is essential to achieving that significant goal. Managing costs is also vitally important. In three years, over 50 percent of OPPD’s power will be generated from less expensive wind and solar. Driving costs down while improving our environment.

Janece Mollhoff

Retired Army Colonel and Registered Nurse; last employed as a Clinical Manager for the Visiting Nurse Association in Omaha; Senior Case Manager for Southern Regional Medical Command; Deputy Commander

Master of Social Work - University of Nebraska-Omaha; Bachelors in Nursing - University of Nebraska Medical Center; Associates in Nursing - University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Graduated top 10% Command and General Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, KS

My first priority would be to review energy production costs and work with other Board members and OPPD management to determine which additional strategies we can use to lower our customer's bills through budgeting, energy efficiency, new technology, and demand management measures. I would also review power outage data especially in rural areas to determine if more aggressive maintenance and upgrades on transmission could be done to protect families, businesses, ag operations and communities. Lower bills, reliability, transparency and accountability will be my primary focus on the Board.

Voter info

» Register in person at an election commission office, the DMV, or in Douglas County, any of Omaha’s 12 library branches.

Registration questions

Visit www.votercheck.necvr.ne.gov to check whether you’re registered to vote and find your polling place. If you think you should be able to vote at a polling place but there’s a problem with the registration, request to fill out a provisional ballot. The election commission will collect them and then has a week to verify whether you are eligible to vote.

To see a sample ballot

See a sample ballot from the Nebraska Secretary of State website here.

To find your district

Visit votercheck.necvr.ne.gov and look up your registration info or polling place to find a list of the political districts you live in.

Important dates

Oct. 1: First day for early voting ballots to be mailed.
Oct. 9: First day to vote early in person at election commission office.
Oct. 19: Deadline to register to vote online, by mail, at agencies, at the DMV office, by deputy registrar or by registration form that’s delivered to the election office by someone other than the person registering
Oct. 26: Deadline for in-person voter registration at election commission office, 6 p.m. Deadline for early voting ballots to be requested to be mailed to a specific address, 6 p.m. Deadline for write-in candidates to file notarized affidavit and filing fee with filing officer.
Nov. 5: Deadline for in-person early voting at election commission office, 5 p.m. (Sarpy County office closes at 4:45 p.m.)
Nov. 6: Election Day! Polls open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. 7 p.m.: Deadline for agent to pick up early voting ballot. 8 p.m.: Deadline to return early voting ballot to election commission office or drop box location
Nov. 13: Deadline for verification of provisional ballots

Here are the Douglas County drop box locations, opening in early October: